{"id":163,"date":"2019-06-21T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=163"},"modified":"2019-04-18T23:48:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T03:48:44","slug":"pptsm-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/06\/21\/pptsm-51\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 051"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the grand finale of this wild tale, Marie Severin tags in on pencils. Man, this book really needs a regular artist. Everyone working on it is good, but consistency is nice. So, Mysterio and the aliens have Peter chained up and are demanding the secret of the Mallone treasure. Peter tells them the truth, that it was destroyed by silverfish, but they don\u2019t believe him, so they put him into \u201cThe Psycho-Dome.\u201d Pete already smelled a rat, and is getting more suspicious by the minute. What would aliens need with a lame like Mysterio? \u201cThe Psycho-Dome\u201d slings Peter around on his chain while a bunch of Mysterio\u2019s illusions bother him. But he sees through that almost immediately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It gets pretty funny when Mysterio tries to scare Peter with an irate Spider-Man, furious at Peter for making money off his pictures. It\u2019s right there that Peter pretends to pass out. He\u2019d hoped they\u2019d put him in a cell or something he could break out of, but they dose him with a sedative, so it\u2019s harder than he anticipated. Meanwhile, at Aunt May\u2019s nursing home, the cops are leaving, having taken everyone\u2019s statements about an alien abduction, and they aren\u2019t sure what to do. Credit to them for not dismissing aliens outright in a world full of superheroes and stuff, I guess. However, inside, the mood is grim\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then a goon shows up and kidnaps Deb! Soon, Peter wakes up in a storage closet. He frees himself and changes to Spider-Man, and discovers he\u2019s definitely not on a spaceship. And then this happens: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great bit. Spidey pulls his mask off, and\u2026I mean, come on. The aliens are just dudes in suits, of course. Not only that, but they were just dudes in suits way back in ASM #2, as this guy happily explains. And one of those dudes was Quentin Beck, AKA Mysterio, and it was that first alien caper that made him decide to become a supervillain solo act. Anyway, Spidey smashes his way through what has been revealed to be soundstages until he finds Mysterio\u2019s control room, and look who\u2019s here:
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In an inspired bit, Spidey then turns Mysterio\u2019s illusions back on him, and it would all be fun & games, except\u2026
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In the process, he\u2019s terrorizing Deb! Spidey, no! Mysterio figures out what\u2019s going on and makes for a back-up control room where he hopes to win the day, but then\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good for you, Deb! Let \u2018im have it! She cracked Mysterio\u2019s bowl so badly that he can\u2019t see and has to take it off. With Deb free, Spider-Man is able to swoop in and finish Mysterio up. He leaves Mysterio & his goons tied up for the cops, tells Deb where Peter was imprisoned, and then gets back there just in time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This wouldn\u2019t be the last time Roger Stern took a chance to retcon something that didn\u2019t seem to add up. It\u2019s a better story, really. Spider-Man works best against more down-to-Earth villains. Just one problem: Quentin Beck. I know Quentin Beck, the original Mysterio. But I thought this Mysterio was Dr. Ludwig Rinehart in his previous appearance. The internet tells me that\u2019s an alias Beck used, but\u2026 It didn\u2019t seem that way to me. Why did Peter call him that even after he knew it was Mysterio? I\u2019m not so sure about this. Ah, well. This was way more enjoyable than that story was. And it\u2019s fun and unique how much of the super parts featured Peter instead of Spider-Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the grand finale of this wild tale, Marie Severin tags in on pencils. Man, this book really needs a regular artist. Everyone working on it is good, but consistency is nice….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[35,154,18,176,234,164,117,121,2],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-aunt-may","tag-deb-whitman","tag-jim-mooney","tag-marie-severin","tag-mysterio","tag-nathan-lubensky","tag-roger-stern","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}